>>5964971>>5964984You got more votes on a different quest with a different premise and a different OP pic, 4 years ago, during the final year of relatively high activity before /qst/ settled into its current plateau? I'm astonished. Btw, I was running in 2020, and 15 votes on an OP wasn't frequent back then either. I got 5 votes on two different OPs from winter and fall 2019. Is my anecdote more meaningful than yours?
Anyway, I never claimed that /qst/ wasn't dying. I'm claiming that it always has been and probably always will be dying. Check my crude trendlines: /qst/ activity steeply declined between 2018-2020 (presumably between 2016-2020, but 4stats only has data back to 2018), stalled out at the end of 2020, and has only been very shallowly declining (ignoring the weird mid-2021 bump, which reverted back to the mean anyway) since. If /qst/ had declined at the same rate as it did during 2018-2020, it'd be dead by now. Instead, it's due to be dead in, like, a decade-- and I think it's probably more likely that this place limps along like other diminished containment boards like /mlp/ do. We're never going to be "active," but dying is a far cry from dead.
